One of my all time favorites.

Fantastic!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This movie is a discovery. Sometimes there is such a movie that is not easy to digest and you must watch again or discuss with your friends. It started out like a simple rom com around the lovely Anne Hathaway and flat goofy character Jason Sudeikis. Jason is still living in the place where they both grew up and at first it seems like your normal girl gets back to her sleepy home town and falls in love etcetera.I must say I was losing a little bit of interest at that time but then the movie changed pace and it capativated me totally. Well done Nacho Vigalondo! All characters grew in depth, Jason in particular. It is a movie about control actually. Control of yourself and others. Anne is out of control as her former boyfriend and herself say. She has no control over her alcohol use and behavior and Jason deals next to the same alcohol problem with serious anger and self issues. Such types as Jason has friends like the quiet and simple Austin Stowell and akward and always great playing Tim Blake Nelson with secrets all of his own.The bar he owns has a hidden back part which is not in use anymore and where he and his friends get drunk in. Anne opens this back part and all of this is of course a lovely metaphor for his life. There he changes drastically towards controlling everyone around him in a very abusing way. He is destroying the bar and himself with it. The swimmingpool scene with all those leaves is great by the way. Anne on the other hand is trying to take control back in her own hands and that control stuggle between all actors is very well done I think.People who just came for a comedy with monsters please go away. It is not about the monster in Korea, but in yourself. Everyone who understands and loves the underlying theme and character development, please watch movies with me!

A total waste of 2 hours of my life. Bad writing and bad acting and bad ideas for a movie sum up this bomb. Totally uninteresting and unoriginal.

I don't get why people don't like this movie. It's absurd and ridiculous and a good time. Hathaway's character is a fully engaging.

The term 'car-crash' normally means something that's really bad and yet you can't bring yourself to look away. I think it would be a little unfair to refer to 'Colossal' as a 'car-crash' of a film, because it's not bad at all, in fact, it's rather touching and uplifting, but I certainly couldn't stop myself from watching, even though I have to confess I'm not entirely sure of the point.Thinking about it, I do wonder how commercially successful it was because I can't really think of the target audience it was supposed to be aimed at. If you've seen any of the marketing material surrounding it, you may well have spotted the prominent monsters crashing through major world cities. In the light of the 'Pacific Rim' movies you may well be expecting an action blockbuster, but you would be well off the mark with that one. Also, prominently featured in the film's posters is its star Anne Hathaway smiling and looking a little bit kookie. This almost makes the film come across as a happy-go-lucky comedy, maybe with a romantic element contained within? Again, well wrong.In fact, it's almost hard to explain about the film's plot without giving too much away. Anne Hathaway plays a struggling alcoholic who gets caught up in a much larger matter (pun intended) regarding giant monsters crashing through a city on the other side of the world. How are these two situations connected? Well, you'll have to watch the film to find out.I will say that the film doesn't give a clear and cut explanation to everything it's presented the audience with, but it gives you enough to allow you to fill in the blanks yourself with (film) logic. What you get is actually a drama about an alcoholic struggling with her demons and those around her that wish to either help or hinder her. Yes, there are also giant monsters in there, too.As long as you expect drama first and sci-fi second, you should enjoy it. There's not much here in the way of humour or action, so certainly don't hold out for anything that remotely resembles 'Pacific Rim.' As I said, I don't know who the target audience for this is, only that I enjoyed it and found that I was definitely rooting for Anne Hathaway's character and found her a flawed, yet endearing hero.